Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Allthings at first appear difficult.